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Harry Reid’s supporters say the GOP's internal struggle in Nevada gives him a new lease on life.
John Shinkle

Angle says the Democrats are misreading the country.

“They’ve missed the pulse of the nation,” Angle told POLITICO. “It’s a wave of conservatism across the land. I think they’re not really reading what is truly going on if they think I’m going to be an easy opponent for Harry Reid.”

But political strategists on both sides say Angle would have to step up her field organization and advertising apparatus to have any shot of beating the most powerful Democrat in the Senate.

Angle “has no clue about what is going to happen to her,” said a Nevada GOP insider. “She is in no way prepared for this, for a race at the federal level. She’s really out of her depth here.”

Democrats will hit her hard on Social Security and for drawing a connection in 2002 between “drugs bought on the streets of our state” and the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11.

“I was just equating drug dealers to terrorists,” Angle said Friday, adding that she expects Reid to “distort the truth” about her comments on the issue.

Reid is also prepared to whack Angle with the fact that she was selected “Worst Member” of the Nevada Assembly in informal polls conducted by the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 1999 and 2005.

Angle said the press, legislators and staff participating in the poll were largely “left leaning.”

“Any conservative thought, or any conservative voting, to their way of thinking is terrible,” Angle said. “And so that’s really what that rating was about. I wear that as a badge of honor. What that does is just solidify my record as being a conservative.”

Lowden stopped just short of saying that Angle would lose if she were the nominee, but said: “You think Harry Reid is afraid of her? Is he running commercials against her?”

In an interview Friday, Lowden denied suggestions she was in a free-fall, saying that the race has tightened in the final weeks because of the Tea Party Express’s endorsement of Angle — and because of the six-figure attack ad blitz from Reid’s allies.

Although Tarkanian insists that he can emerge from the three-way primary as Lowden begins to focus on Angle, Lowden said the race has become a two-way campaign between her and Angle.

During the interview, Lowden refused to say if she stood by her bartering-for-health-care comments, saying she was focusing instead on Nevada’s high unemployment and foreclosure rates. When a reporter asked Lowden about the comments, she accused him of “allowing” Reid to change the subject.

“If you want to change the subject and talk about the subject that no one else is talking about, that’s up to you,” Lowden said.

At the end of the interview, Lowden declined to discuss whether she shared Paul’s views on the Civil Rights Act.

“You can’t resist this, can you? I have no idea what another candidate says,” Lowden said.

Asked whether she had any concerns about the law’s reach into private business, Lowden said, “I’m going, thank you,” then abruptly hung up the phone.

This is not a conflict between Democrat and Republican, it's a conflict of the American people against a government that has gone insane.

It's a conflict between the American people and a government that no longer represents the people who elected them.

It's a conflict between the American people and a government that does more to represent the people of other countries than they do the people of their own country.

It's a conflict between the American people and a government that has clearly lost all sense of morality, ethics, economic common sense, belief in the constitution and belief in any law at all except for those they make up as they go.

This is more akin to a second American Revolution of the people against an invading foreign power than it is a traditional election cycle.

FoxFan, why do people who so hate the gov't want to be a part of it? John McCain is a perfect example. Republicans want smaller gov't, and got their wish in the form of the minority party. When they start advocating for smarter gov't, people may start listening.

Let's remove from office all Democrats (with Reid and Pelosi). The Democrats are not doing a good job. They are not deporting illegal aliens. The Democrats support amnesty for illegal aliens. Americans do not support that. The Democrats are not doing anything to improve our economy. The Democrats do not support SB 1070. The Democrats are a liability for our country. Remove all Democrats this November and in 2012 let's elect a new president because Obama is not helping Americans. Obama helps his illegal aliens. And that we do not accept. Let's clean the US Congress this November and in 2012. The Democrats are not good.

This happened just last week.........and I bet all you could do this weekend was to pitch a fit about the protesters who crushed the petunias at that poor little matchgirl banker's house.

Such compassion for the scared teenage kid who had 14 bus loads of union protestors drop in announced and crawl all over the property...I can imagine the outrage had it been Tea Party folks scaring the daylights out of some union organizer's kid...the double standards stink up the joint. /sigh/